Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress and author.

She is best known for her role as Minny Jackson in the 2011 film The Help, for which she won the BAFTA, Golden Globe, SAG, Critics' Choice, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Other notable films include Get on Up, Black or White, Smashed, Snowpiercer, The Divergent Series: Insurgent and Fruitvale Station.

Spencer created the character of Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective for a children's book series, releasing The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit in 2013, and The Sweetest Heist in History in 2015.

Bureau of Otherworldly Operations (B.O.O.) is a top-secret government agency which employs ghosts to protect humans from evil hauntings. When two new agents named Jackson Moss and Watts uncover a plot by the agency's most wanted haunter Addison Drake to destroy B.O.O., they must use their skills to defeat his ghost army and save the world.

, 1h39Directed byStephen HerekOriginUSAGenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-dramaActorsSophie Nélisse, Julia Stiles, Glenn Close, Kathy Bates, Octavia Spencer, Bill CobbsRoles Miss HarrisRating64% Gilly Hopkins is the meanest girl in town: she has a birth mother she has never seen and has moved from one foster home to another. Learning that she will be sent to a new home, she wastes no time stirring up trouble. Then she meets a woman named Trotter, who wants to be the mother Gilly needs. With Gilly posing a challenge, Trotter must prove a good relationship will benefit both of them.

, 2h1Directed byMike BinderOriginUSAGenresDramaThemesFilms about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugsActorsGillian Jacobs, Kevin Costner, Jennifer Ehle, Octavia Spencer, Bill Burr, André HollandRoles Rowena JeffersRating66% Elliot is in a hospital, discussing funeral arrangements over the phone. His wife died in an accident. His colleague/friend Rick arrives, Elliot tells him what happened, and Rick tries to offer him support. Elliot goes home alone and drinks himself to sleep. Next morning, he hides the liquor bottle as his granddaughter Eloise, who is bi-racial, knocks on the door and asks where her grandmother is. He tells her he will take her to school and to finish getting ready. He sees visions of his wife and attempts to brush Eloise’s hair, but is unsuccessful. She is upbeat as usual, and they are having difficulty as Elliot tries to do her hair, get her ready, and then take her to school. Elliot admits that he has never driven his granddaughter to school before, and that he got lost.